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Board Gambling discussion
Re: Has anyone placed esports bets?
by
Fortify
on 08/11/2021, 21:32:32 UTC
Hey guys,


I am currently attending the ICE London event today and there is evidently a massive focus on esports this year. So I wanted to find out if anyone has recently bet on anything esports related?

There was a live esports game today (CS:GO) at ICE with GG.Bet covering the betting, with the match taking place between Mad lions and OG esports.

You can watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnMYAd_O0xk

Let me know if anyone bet on this game!

It seems like eSports is a massive growth industry and we are still in the very early days of it. I think the reason we see so many of the older games like counter strike and league of legends, as opposed to many of the newer games (e.g. call of duty) on betting sites basically comes down to cheating. We're unlikely to see much sports betting going on outside of highly regulated arena style games, where players have to use host provided machines that cannot be interfered with in order to make sure everyone is playing fairly. Covid would actually have put this whole scene on ice for a while because it's so easy to modify and introduce hacks to machines at "home" that would be untraceable but wildly rig the game in a cheaters favor.